No, I mean I’m wearing a hat.
“We wanted to know which VPN providers take privacy extremely seriously so we asked many of the leading providers two very straightforward questions. Their responses will be of interest to anyone concerned with anonymity issues.”
Which VPN Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously? | TorrentFreak
This ought to be of interest to everybody.
jkottke:
Writing for New York magazine, Henry Blodget explains how a young startup founder and college dropout became the CEO of a soon-to-be $100 billion company.
When talking about Zuckerberg’s most valuable personality trait, a colleague jokingly invokes the famous Stanford marshmallow tests, in…
“Why do recipe writers lie and lie and lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions?”
Bit of perspective there.
(Source: wadler.blogspot.co.uk)
Netflix to open source army of cloud monkeys (Wired UK)
(via disassociation)
disassociation:
Google Glasses: A New Way to Hurt Yourself (parody of Google’s Project Glass) (by enyay)
“Question: Is the world round or flat?
Answer: Flat
Q: If the world is flat, what would happen if you walked to the edge?
A: You would find water.
Q: Is the sun moving around the earth or is the earth moving around the sun?
A: The sun is moving around the earth.
Q: Can you draw a picture of Africa and show me where Malawi is?
A: (much pondering, holding pencil and paper) No, I don’t know.These were the answers given by a village farmer who works for me at Linthipe. Resourceful, intelligent, hard-working, eager to learn new things — but with minimal primary school education, he lacks basic knowledge about the world.
But he doesn’t really need that knowledge to survive, right?
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April 2012 Update :: from Linthipe to Chongoni
Read the rest of the update for more insight into Susan’s amazing work in Malawi.
Scrolling graph of instruments in Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. This is how songs look in my head.
(By musanim, via 22 Words)
This is a crazy cartoon, but something about it just rings true. Maybe it’s the idea of pleasant-tasting business cards.